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  • Title: Evidence for the mitochondrial biosynthesis of 3R-hydroxy-5Z,8Z,11Z,1 4Z-eicosatetraenoic acid in the yeast Dipodascopsis uninucleata.
    Author: Fox SR, Hamberg M, Friend J, Ratledge C.
    Journal: Lipids; 2000 Nov; 35(11):1205-14. PubMed ID: 11132180.
    Abstract:
    The biosynthesis of 3R-hydroxy-5Z, 8Z, 11Z,14Z-eicosatetraenoic acid (3R-HETE) from arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) by the hyphal-forming yeast, Dipodascopsis uninucleata, in cell-free enzyme extracts required CoASH, ATP, NAD+ and Mg2+; 3R-HETE was present as the CoA derivative in enzyme extracts and its biosynthesis was associated with mitochondria. Its synthesis was high from arachidonoyl-CoA (15% conversion of the substrate; 22 nmol mg protein(-1) x h), but significantly higher from trans-2-arachidonoyl-CoA (53 nmol mg protein(-1) x min). Aspirin, an inhibitor of prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase synthase (cyclooxygenase), did not significantly inhibit 3R-HETE biosynthesis in enzyme extracts, as opposed to antimycin A (46% inhibition). The chirality of 3-HETE was 95% R and 5% S. 3R-HETE has the same chirality as the products of peroxisomal enoyl-CoA hydratases of Neurospora crassa and Saccharomyces cerevisiae; the difference appears to be that in D. uninucleata the Renantiomers are synthesized in mitochondria. Exogenously supplied eicosapentaenoic acid was converted to 3-hydroxy 5Z,11Z,14Z,17Z-eicosapentaenoic acid by cell-free enzyme extracts though there was no requirement for a 5Z,8Z-diene structure for the biosynthesis of 3-hydroxylated fatty acids as 3-hydroxy-8Z,11Z,14Z, and 3-hydroxy-11Z,14Z,17Z-eicosatrienoic acids were synthesized from the corresponding fatty acids. We found no evidence for the synthesis of the prostaglandins F2alpha and E2.
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